Umio is an app that helps UK armed forces veterans and their families escape the limitations of chronic pain, disability and trauma, and the struggles of civilian life.
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Why us?
Umio helps UK service veterans and their families to overcome chronic pain, trauma, disability, isolation and other forms of distress to enjoy a better life.
We understand the challenges that leaving and former serving personnel face in civilian life, especially when struggling with pain and other forms of distress. That's why we have developed Umio, a unique app designed to assist veterans in reclaiming and expanding their lives.
With Umio as their digital companion, veterans can embrace a brighter future.
How the app helps
Rethink your pain and distress, discover and do more
Getting unstuck from pain requires rethinking your outlook, being open to new possibilities and taking committed action. Umio helps you to accept your pain positively and drop the struggle. When you do, new opportunities for living the life you truly value come into view.
Find, meet and help fellow UK veterans
Umio connects you with other veterans having similar experiences. By encouraging, helping, and collaborating together, your team of veteran buddies becomes a valuable support system, offering listening ears and encouragement, no matter how long it's been since you left the service.
Understand your changing pain experience
Umio contains a unique, advanced interface and supporting analysis tools that help you to record, recall and understand your everyday experiences. This allows you to discover previously hidden patterns and trends, set goals, take impactful actions, and access the help and resources you need.
Obtain veteran-specific help
As well as innovative pain and experience tools, Umio contains an evolving directory of pain and distress-friendly content, events, services and resources which you request, control and choose to participate in. You can also create your own activities or ideas and add them into Umio too.
Get beyond your service self
Finally, Umio helps you to rediscover your values and skills in ways that are not only beneficial to you and your pain, but also to others (with or without pain). By joining, you will discover new opportunities for creating a positive impact as an active, engaged citizen.
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Unique app features
Experience Expression Interface
Capture meaningful experiences for any kind of activity, event or occasion that you do, from gardening to a night at the cinema, from a gentle walk or fast run to a night in the pub, from cooking to just resting. Keep a record of your experiences on your personal feed and learn what works for you and your pain, and what doesn't.
Peer Experience Support System
Connect with your veteran friends and find mates you've lost touch with. Start sharing your experiences in your veteran group, and exchange support, ideas, and encouragement to push you all on. Just knowing a friend is there can make a big difference in itself.
FlowGen AI Learning Engine
Over time, discover hidden patterns and trends in your experiences. Share them and ask the Umio learning engine for ideas to obtain personalised recommendations for activities, support and resources to help you do and achieve more in your life, despite your pain.
Local Activities, Events and Support
Find veteran support and things to do near where you live or are. Propose, create, add, organise, and promote your own support, activities and events. Review and record your experience of support, event or activity and share into the whole Umio veteran network for others to discover and do too.
Veteran charity or agency?
Find out how Umio for Veterans can benefit your organisation. Please contact us to learn more.
“I’m not a veteran that’s been out and done a lot of tours and got a lot of medals. It’s a strange feeling, like a bit lesser you know, but maybe the pain sharing, the pain and experience could equalise that, you know, you’re the same.”
“If this platform had been available, I’d have been all over it. I’d have been like, what else can I do that’s local to me? Who else can I chat to? What have they been doing that I could be doing? And what have I been doing that they could be doing?”
“If you get a little bit of a boost which something like this could create then that would help improve so many different elements of like your mental health, your well-being.”
“It’s good that other veterans can see if you’ve been doing something and you’re in absolute agony and it’s made your mental health worse. You know, they can give you a message and say, oh, you’re all right mate?”
“It would be good to see what’s available locally, services and activities and people with similar injuries, abilities and service background, where I’m not going to turn up and everyone’s a marathon runner you know?”
Learn more about Umio and see a demo of the veteran prototype. Book a meeting.
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